MicroZed Chronicles: Ethernet on the Digilent Arty A7
A couple of weeks ago I was emailed about how to get the ethernet working on the Digilent Arty A7 development board. We have covered this...
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Adam Taylor
- May 31, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Sneak Peek Analog Discovery 3
Over the years working as both a FPGA developer and author of this blog, I have found it very useful to have a range of test equipment....
Adam Taylor
- May 24, 2023
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: FPGA Development Life Cycle
In this blog, we often talk about detailed design features or aspects of FPGA or heterogeneous SoC design. This allows us to learn about...
Adam Taylor
- May 17, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Dynamic Clocking
Clocking is at the heart of every FPGA design.. We can spend a lot less time battling the tools if we get the clock architecture right,...
Adam Taylor
- May 9, 2023
- 7 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Working with ADCs and DACs
Recently I’ve shared several projects on Hackster which are based around digital filters, math and signal processing. One common element...
Adam Taylor
- May 3, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Digilent Eclypse Z7 Board
There is a wide range of development boards on the market today. Some are ideal for beginners who are just learning programmable logic or...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 26, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Vivado Simulator Code and Functional Coverage
While writing the HDL is often the easy element of FPGA development, the most challenging and time-consuming element can be verification....
Adam Taylor
- Apr 19, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: A look at the DSP58
We looked at fixed point math a few weeks ago and we’ve also previously looked at how we can use DSP48 in both 7 series and UltraScale+...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 12, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: ZUBoard 1CG and PYNQ
You might have noticed several posts on the Avnet ZUBoard 1CG over the last six months. This board contains an AMD Xilinx ZU1CG MPSoC...
Adam Taylor
- Apr 5, 2023
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Glitch Filtering
Our programmable logic designs are often deployed in applications which can be electrically noisy. This noise can affect the signals that...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 29, 2023
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Getting Started Part Three
Lately we have been discussing helpful tips and tricks, the best development boards and even the best books to reference if you’re...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 22, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM)
Over the years, we have looked at many different verification frameworks like cocotb and varying approaches when working with AMD AXI...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 15, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Useful Books when Developing with FPGAs
In addition to questions about the best beginner development boards, I am often asked which books I recommend for FPGA developers just...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 8, 2023
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Fixed-Point Math
One of the first articles I ever wrote was about how FPGAs perform fixed-point math. Understanding this is important because FPGA-based...
Adam Taylor
- Mar 1, 2023
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Which Dev Board to Start With?
One of the questions I get asked a lot is which development board is the best for (beginner) FPGA and SOC development. Understandably,...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 22, 2023
- 4 min
MicroZed Chronicles: SW Development with Vitis and Visual Studio Code
A lot of my FPGA development takes place within Visual Studio Code where I use it with TerosHDL to create HDL and cocotb for...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 17, 2023
- 2 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Hotstate and Programmable State Machines
We often use finite state machines (FSM) when we want to implement control structures in our programmable logic structures. As complexity...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 8, 2023
- 5 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Working with Reset
When we are verifying a design or bringing it up on a board, it’s not uncommon for either reset or clocking issues to cause it to not...
Adam Taylor
- Feb 1, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Designing & Debugging DDR4
A few weeks ago, we looked at what to do if you experience issues with DDR3 when bringing up a new board. In this blog, we are going to...
Adam Taylor
- Jan 25, 2023
- 3 min
MicroZed Chronicles: Integration and Debugging System
Over the last few weeks, we have been working to create a simple system which allows debugging from a UART into an AXI Lite network. This...
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